RSMI's Believers Bible Fellowship Notes

Whats Happening In Your Heart Part 2

Isaiah 53:3-5  He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.   Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.  But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.

Jesus felt Despised, Rejected, Grief, Sorrows and Devalued.

Where did this happen? 

IN HIS HEART!

Rejection is the feeling of being unwanted, excluded, worthless, or not belonging to a group or to anyone

It’s like the feeling of a fist in your chest (pressure)

Rejections is the #1 cause of wounding in a persons heart

You are not responsible for the wounding

You are responsible for your reaction to the wounding

Thoughts produce feelings.
Thoughts + Feelings = Behavior

Isaiah 53:5 “But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.”

Transgressions produce wounds in our heart.
Iniquities produce bruising.

Heart Boundaries and Needs
Feel Unconditional Love
Feel Safe and Secure
Feel Valuable, and validated.
Feel a sense of destiny or purpose.

When one of the four basic Heart needs is not met or felt a wound takes place.

Wounds take place through transgressions; The transgression has to filter through your thoughts in order to form a wound.

If Gods Word is has not formed your thoughts you will not be protected from a transgression, thus you will receive a wound in your heart.

Genesis 16:12 “And he( Ishmael) will be a wild man; his hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him; and he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.”

Ishmael was a Wild man and he fought against everyman, and every man was against him.

Why?

Hagar was pregnant with Abrams child. Sarai persecuted and rejected Hagar.

Hagar felt so rejected that she fled into the wilderness. Ishmael felt that rejection while still in his mother’s womb.

When Hagar returned and gave birth to Ishmael.  Ishmael lived in Abrahams house and received Abrahams blessing.

But when Isaac was born, everything changed for Ishmael.
Instead of receiving healing, and accepting of Gods Word and His promise in Isaac, Ishmael acted out of his rejection and wound by mocking and persecuting Isaac. (Gen 21:9)

As a result he and Hagar were told to leave. Abraham had to send them away.

This added more wounding to his heart. Ishmael entered into a Cycle of Pain in which he lived out the rest of his life, and passed that on to his children and their children.

Psalm 107:20 “He sent his word, and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions.”

Gods Word will heal the wounds of our heart.

If Ishmael would have received Gods Word, his heart would have been healed. He and Hagar could have stayed with Abraham.

Instead he received other interpretive thoughts as a result of his wounding. These thoughts created destructive barriers, and produced wrong behavior.

That’s what strongholds do in a person’s heart. They imprison us and hinder Gods life giving Spirit to be at work in our lives.

Faith, believing Gods Word, opens a door in our hearts, for the life giving Spirit of God to heal and to bless us.

HURTING PEOPLE HURT PEOPLE while HEALED PEOPLE HEAL PEOPLE

Which one will you be?

RSMI's Believers Bible Fellowship Notes

March 2nd 2011

Whats Happening In Your Heart?

Isaiah 53:5 “But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.”


Luke 4:18 “The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised,”

Hebrews 4:12 “For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.”

A statement was made with a question

We are suppose to trust and follow our hearts
Question: What if your mind tells you something different?

1. Your heart is the most inward part of your soul
2. Your heart contains your thoughts and intents. (Hebrews 4:12)
3. If your mind (soul) is renewed by the Word of God then your heart which receives Gods Word, will be in agreement with, your spirit, which is created in the likeness of God our Father.
4. If our heart and soul are not healed and renewed- go to Gods Word for direction even if you have doubts in your mind. We must have peace or agreement in our heart.

Genesis 2:7 “And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.”

Our body contains our soul
Our soul contains our spirit
At the center of our soul is our heart which is the hiding place of our spirit. (1Peter 3:4)
The real you is your spirit, which comes directly from God your Father.

Romans 7:17-20 “Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me. For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not. For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do. Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me."

Sin dwells in our body
Sin is a thing
Sin is a noun, and a verb
Sin is an infection, you must dominate.

We cannot find answers in our body, for that is where sin resides. We must find answers from God and His Word, which must reside in our heart!

Your heart was created to contain your spirit and receive Gods Word! It is in our heart that Gods word can be received and believed.

Romans 10:9-10 “That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.”

Your heart was created to believe thoughts. That’s its purpose!

Hebrews 4:12 “For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.”

Intents: ( Greek word ennoia)
1) the act of thinking, consideration, meditation
2) a thought, notion, conception
3) mind, understanding, will, manner of feeling, and thinking

Thoughts (Greek enthymēsis)
1) A thinking, consideration
2) Thoughts

Jesus said, in Matthew 6:31 “Therefore take no thought, saying…”

Thoughts are simply unspoken words.

Our heart will contain Gods Word, His thoughts, or, some else’s?
The battle is in our hearts.

What happens in your heart determines what you think, feel, believe and do.

RSMI's Believers Bible Fellowship Notes

February 23, 2011 Albert Lea, MN

What is Faith?  What is doubt?  To answer these two questions we can start by answering another quetion.

What is Sin?
Romans 7:11 "For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew me."
 
Romans 6:6 "Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin."
 
Romans 6:14 "For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace."
 
James 4:17 "Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin."
 
Romans 14:23 "And he that doubteth is damned if he eat, because he eateth not of faith: for whatsoever is not of faith is sin."

Sin is not just a behavior
Sin is a thing, personality; and a verb, an action.
Whatsoever is not of faith is sin.

What is faith?
Romans 10:17 “So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.”


Faith believes Gods Word

Ephesians 2:8-9 For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast.

By Grace were saved through faith. Grace saved you not your good works.
Salvation is received through your faith, salvation is not earned through faith.

Galatians 2:16 … even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works..”

First of all faith is simply believing God and His Word.
Faith is not works or behavior. Faith is believing Gods Word!

James 2:17 “Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone.”

Secondly Faith will have works or corresponding behavior that expresses it.
The works are not faith, they are the result of faith.
So faith is believing and doing Gods Word!

So what is sin?
Romans 14:23 "And he that doubteth is damned if he eat, because he eateth not of faith: for whatsoever is not of faith is sin."

Not believing God and His Word is sin
Sin is not believing God and His word, and acting on that belief.

Where do we believe?

Genesis 2:7
Spirit contacts soul to work.
Soul contacts the body to work
Body contacts natural world.

John 7:38 He that believeth on me, as the scripture has said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.

Belly= containing vessel, heart, middle.
Out of his heart shall flow living waters, or life.

John 4:14 "But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life."

Notice He said, shall be in us a well of water.
Water symbolizes spirit.

What does the well represent? The belly, or the heart!
The heart of a man contains the spirit of a man.

Romans 10:9 “That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.”

We believe in our heart.
When we believe in our heart, our spirit created in the image of God, flows out!

Faith believes God & His word
Doubt = believing something other than Gods word

How can doubt be formed in a persons heart?

Isaiah 53:3 prophesy of Jesus

The first place Jesus suffered was in his heart
Despised
Rejected
Sorrows; Pain
Grief’s Infirmities, sickness
He experienced no validation

Hebrew words have multi meanings
Hebrew Alaphet: each letter has a color and a sound that signifies that letter
Ex: the letter a means red and has a musical note to identify it as well

Isaiah 53:5 But he was wounded for our transgressions

Transgression = trespass; crossing of a boundary
The crossing of a boundary in our soul/heart or body

Ex: have you ever seen a NO TRESSPASSING sign? It means do not cross a boundary.
God created us with boundaries or needs.

Four Physical Boundaries or Needs
Air
Water
Food
Shelter

Four Heart or Soul Boundaries, or Needs
Feel Unconditional Love
Feel Safe and Secure
Feel Valuable, and validated.
Feel a sense of destiny or purpose.


John 4: 24 God is Love
We were created to give love to God and receive love from God
We are created to give love to others and receive love from others
Love Never Takes

There are 5 ways we give and receive love to and from God
And 5 ways we give and receive Love to and from others

5 ways God created communicates love to you: Five love languages.
Talk
Touch
Acts of Service
Gift Giving
Quality time together.

God communicates with us everyday in all 5 ways

Ex: We picture God high above us looking down at us waiting for us to screw up and we have to go to Jesus to get to God because Jesus will argue our case to Him so we don’t get into trouble.

The Bible gives us a completely different picture of Who God is. He is LOVE!

We have to train our hearts to hear Gods voice.
……………..close your eyes… quite your mind ….says softly, “Father, I love you.”………what did you hear?

God is always speaking to you through those 5 love languages

Isaiah 53:5 “But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.”
He was wounded for our trespasses’.

A trespass can take place in our lives when one or more of our heart needs are not met through one or more of these love languages.

How easy it is for a trespass to happen in a relationship because we don’t know how to communicate or receive love.

There is Silent torment when two people try to communicate with different love languages and aren’t even aware of what’s happening. Trespass = wounded hearts

Ex: subject A: love language is talk
Subject B: love language is acts of service

If A talks to B but B needs something done for them. B gets angry with A because a love language is not being met.

So, a wound takes place.
We are not responsible for wounding that happens to us.

We are however responsible for our reactions to that wounding.

Wounds are the result of transgression.
Transgressions are trespasses.
Trespasses’ are simply crossing the boundaries that God has set up for us.

When wounding takes place it can hinder our faith, and literally create wrong beliefs.

If Gods Word is not there to heal that wound, doubt, unbelief will the be the result. A wrong belief in something other than Gods word will be the result.

Isaiah 53:5 “But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.”